Nancy Bond - still like A String in the Harp best. I plan to write about that, so I'll restrain myself now.
I'd like to 'hear' your reasons... SitH is indeed a fabulous book, but the other two resonate much more strongly for me. I used to prefer "Best of Enemies", but it lost some of its magic when I reread it as an adult (and the sequel was disappointing somehow - the third was odd, and didn't really feel as if it were about the same people at all)
Perhaps I read SitH too late? I liked it very much, and at times it almost clicked all the way for me, but I was never drawn as deeply into it as I wanted to be, if that makes any sense.
Jane Langton - I wonder if it was the jack in the box that creeped you out - I remember hating the illustration because it really scared me (though normally I love Eric Blegvad's illustrations)
That was the section which haunted me for a quite a while afterwards... and a bit of that childish terror still lurks in the corners when I reread it.
Elizabeth Goudge - I think her reprinting is a direct JKRowling effect - she has said somewhere that A Little White Horse is one of her favourite books. It's certainly one of mine - I adore it. I also love Linnets and Valerians I wrote about the rooms in them some fairly long time ago...
I haven't read the Potter books (my husband read the first one to preview it for my eldest, and we decided to pass on the series. I was supposed to have been doing it, but gave up after the first few chapters - it didn't work for me at all), but I am so deeply grateful for the ripple effects of their success!
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Re: part 1 - fantasy and semi-fantasy
I'd like to 'hear' your reasons... SitH is indeed a fabulous book, but the other two resonate much more strongly for me. I used to prefer "Best of Enemies", but it lost some of its magic when I reread it as an adult (and the sequel was disappointing somehow - the third was odd, and didn't really feel as if it were about the same people at all)
Perhaps I read SitH too late? I liked it very much, and at times it almost clicked all the way for me, but I was never drawn as deeply into it as I wanted to be, if that makes any sense.
Jane Langton - I wonder if it was the jack in the box that creeped you out - I remember hating the illustration because it really scared me (though normally I love Eric Blegvad's illustrations)
That was the section which haunted me for a quite a while afterwards... and a bit of that childish terror still lurks in the corners when I reread it.
Elizabeth Goudge - I think her reprinting is a direct JKRowling effect - she has said somewhere that A Little White Horse is one of her favourite books. It's certainly one of mine - I adore it. I also love Linnets and Valerians I wrote about the rooms in them some fairly long time ago...
I haven't read the Potter books (my husband read the first one to preview it for my eldest, and we decided to pass on the series. I was supposed to have been doing it, but gave up after the first few chapters - it didn't work for me at all), but I am so deeply grateful for the ripple effects of their success!